Washington Township’s Wheeling schoolhouse in Delaware County

Read time: 2 min.

Washington Township’s first purpose-built schoolhouse was constructed in 1839. Another near what later became the community of Wheeling followed the next year. A primitive affair, the building featured notched logs slathered with mud above simple, puncheon floors. Wheeling’s Methodist congregation met there until about 18711.

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Welcome to Stockport, Indiana. Population: ~5 (including you!)

Read time: 7 min.

You would be forgiven for driving through Stockport, in northern Delaware County, without realizing it’s an actual “somewhere,” but there are hundreds if not thousands of tiny, forgotten communities across Indiana just like it. Today, Stockport’s nothing more than a couple of houses, but local boosters had big plans for the place around the turn of the twentieth century.

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